Throwing so much of local government up in the air in a planned reorganisation and then using that as an excuse to delay and cancel elections is a bad idea. A governing party that is languishing in fourth place in some of the polls looks as if it is scared of having to run for re election.The public is not so persuaded of the need for larger units and elected Mayors as the government is , and certainly not if we are denied the right to vote any time soon.
Nor is the public keen on the idea of stripping out the option of trial by jury for so many cases.The courts are not running slow for lack of jurors but for lack of court time and for lack of judges. It looks like another attack on our ancient liberties.
This was not set out in their Manifesto, and is serving to increase their unpopularity. No wonder there are at last signs of labour MP revolts over the poor direction of the government.
December 20, 2025
This was not set out in their Manifesto, and is serving to increase their unpopularity. No wonder there are at last signs of labour MP revolts over the poor direction of the government.
I heard somewhere that a party of government doesn’t have to follow the pledges made in a manifestos, so as been proven by this bunch of idiots we have in charge so basically they can do the hell what they like a specialty when they have a whopping majority
December 20, 2025
Several years ago, there was a rather pompous chap on the radio, who, when questioned said that manifestos weren’t worth the paper they were written on. That no-one ever follows them.
That’s certainly true of this current government’s approach to things. Perhaps they should be made relevant?
December 20, 2025
The Manifesto is designed to win power, it has little to do with what they will actually do if they do get in. Read the past 10 or so and see what they actually did. To the tens of thousands Cameron promised he even claimed to be a low tax at heart Eurosceptic!
Democracy in the UK is a catch 22 those currently in power can largely fix or even delay or cancel the system for
The next election. They can also over tax or rob one group to buy the votes of another group.
December 20, 2025
Gay marriage was in no manifesto
December 20, 2025
Neither was post-Brexit mass immigration and secretly importing 30,000+ Afghans …. hiding it from the electorate via a Super Injunction.
December 20, 2025
+1
December 20, 2025
If MPs want to be re-elected, they need to hold the Government to the manifesto commitments that proved popular enough to win the election, and reject everything that is unpopular.
That how a Government is held to it’s Manifesto, as they always were.
But Parliament is so used to being sidelined (by the EU and Royal Prerogative) that the6 seem to have forgotten their power and role.
December 20, 2025
Morning Sir John,
Perhaps our PM is frightened to put his government up for re-election because he knows he is unlikely to win. If that is true, I suspect that may be the reason he seems so determined to have a war with Russia, because he could suspend all elections during such a war.
The proposed removal of jury trials, Gibraltar’s border control, The Chaagos Islands, Erasmus Scheme, erosion of free speech etc. It seems we have a government who has a cavalier attitude to democracy.
December 20, 2025
Today we read he’s going to join the EU energy trading scheme in exchange for an undisclosed about being paid into the EU cohesion fund. We are already net importers of electricity so how will joining this scheme benefit us.
December 20, 2025
Any war with Russia might delay elections for a week at most.
December 20, 2025
Postponement of local elections is all about Project Save Big Dog. The PM is toast if the polls are true. That many elections going against Labour would be a disaster for his credibility. A smaller number of elections might be more tolerable.
Not that it matters who you vote for in local elections. All local government can do is pour all allowable council tax into statutory duties, with nothing left to discretion.
If I were in a council that delayed elections, I would consider the council invalid as well as any council tax demands.
Reply Councils have huge budgets which they waste on lots of undesirable and marginal things as well spending on core services
December 20, 2025
Starmer would seem to sing from Putin’s hymn book.
December 20, 2025
@Agricola. Maybe in terms of freedoms, but Putin is a lot more popular.
Unlike Starmer, many of his policies deliver for the ordinary working class Russian. They’ve experienced meaningful improvement in their economic situation over recent years compared to a British counterpart. For the better off things aren’t too bad either: top Russian income tax rate is 22%. Public services are pretty good, too.
Of course, if you’re in a Siberian gulag things might not feel so rosy.
December 20, 2025
Good Morning,
I believe we have a very dangerous personality in No. 10. Someone who has come to power in a democratic system, but who is not, in truth, a democrat by belief. (How he came to power, by a vacuum of competence) I believe, by his actions so far, that he is instinctively authoritarian with a hard core socialist dream. He wants to see a pan-Europe, socialist superstate, despite the present experiment already showing signs of failure. He does not accept criticism and IS following a plan to ‘level-down’ the UK, to be broken in economy and spirit ready to be subsumed by a corrupt and desperate EU.
December 20, 2025
Correct. Most of the nations which make up the EU have a very recent experience of democracy. Within living memory they were either Communist or Fascist.
Two-Tier fits right in.
December 20, 2025
@ Peter Wood
It certainly looks that way!
December 20, 2025
Seem so!
December 20, 2025
@Peter Wood. +1. I couldn’t agree more.
December 20, 2025
@Peter Wood – so very true.
Lets never forget it is never one person, it is always more the 50% of the UK Parliament that is supporting these undemocratic processes
December 20, 2025
At least 50% are just stupid. You do need a demonic core to destroy a nation.
December 20, 2025
Starmer is part of a wider movement to change or Reset government to a technocracy with limited democracy. The Bloomberg organisation is training mayors to take over government at a more remote level. Already, Khan and the new regional mayors such as in Manchester and Yorkshire are attending ‘courses’ or training for takeover abroad. They are linked to other subversive agencies and academic institutions such as the LSE.
December 20, 2025
The war criminal Putin held one of his Xmas stage-managed phone-ins yesterday, in which he told the state TV channel RT that Ukraine and NATO started the war. Putin also made vehement denials that he wants to expand the war to other European states that were once part of the Soviet Empire
Western intelligence agencies disagree. They think Russia is planning to expand the war to the Baltic states and Poland
Putin is KGB and a proven liar. Two days before he invaded Ukraine, he made similar “categorical” denials. Despite having lost an estimated 480,000 Russian conscripts killed with ~1.35 million injured (including 3500 dead N Korean conscripts) Putin still bombs Ukraine civilians every night.
Putin is not going to stop his war of aggression against Ukraine and the rest of us. Ultimately, NATO is going to have to intervene.
December 20, 2025
I look forward to your post informing us that you’ve joined the Army and are ready to go and fight the Big Bad Putin.
December 20, 2025
+1 Donna. Though given our ages on this blog it will probably be children or grandchildren that are sent out to die or be maimed. We’ll just have to sit comfortably at home and wait for the missiles.
December 20, 2025
We need to mobilise against the cross-channel invasion first.
December 20, 2025
If you fight for Two Tier’s (open border to all UK and indeed Europe) with Kier appalling proposed back door blasphemy laws (and Reeves/Miliband’s lets destroy the economy lunacy) what or whom exactly would you be fighting for? How many would want to defend a country led by people who clearly seem to be rather determined to destroy UK.
December 20, 2025
Let us hope than that the UK, EU and Nato all ditch the insanity of net zero and climate alarmism so we can have decent defence systems to deter if and when needed. Mr Gold! The deluded Miliband energy agenda is not remotely compatible with sound defence systems or a sound economy!
December 20, 2025
Good old BBC bias. Any Questions this week with Dame Harriett Baldwin MP, Michael Crick, Lord Purvis, Karin Smyth MP. So all left of centre all remainers/remoaners including the chairwoman. No one from Reform or even anyone with remotely sound views. The nearest to the centre was the lefty language graduate and remoaner Dame Baldwin. Kemi’s choice for Shadow Minister for Development!
She wants to retain the disastrous NHS “free” at the point of delay, rationing and no treatment structure and enslave doctors to their state virtual monopoly employer by banning them from striking. So most would sensibly leave the country or the profession.
Crick always wrong on almost everything, says to Harriet “I thought you believed in free markets! Well Crick she is a socialist and does not. Nothing free market about the dire NHS structures that is the main problem.
December 20, 2025
The audience judged by the cheering nearly all BBC “think” too – Trump hating, Farage hating, Brexit hating lefty, economic illiterate socialists – rather like the panel and the chairwoman.
The good old anti-British propaganda outfit that you are forced to fund. Pay you licence fee you mushrooms plebs and we will feed you with ever more shit fertiliser! Plus in this programme they did not even get one to their main lies the war on CO2 lunacy.
A good Intelligence squared podcast on how vital water is for life. But the same is true of Carbon, CO2 and cheap reliable energy. Indeed energy is needed to pump, desalinate and purify water. Yet Mad (or evil) Miliband is fighting against CO2 and cheap reliable – fighting against the gas of life! Surely a crime against life on earth!
December 20, 2025
Just looked her up.
She was procurement minister for the armed forces from 2016 when most of the money was wasted on the unuseable Ajax vehicle.
December 20, 2025
Indeed did she know anything at all about defence procurement? Why was she appointed did they just need a woman with some language skills perhaps?
December 20, 2025
@SG. Nato should keep well out of it, intervention could kill us all. It shouldn’t have meddled back in 2014 and before, either. Ukraine would still be pootling along quite nicely with its borders intact.
Best thing we can hope for now is that the US agrees a new security framework for the western hemisphere with Russia, and forces the Europeans and Brits to accept peace and trade.
December 20, 2025
More off-topic comments. You’re like a pub bore.
December 20, 2025
It is a live q&A session lasting 4 hours with the world’s press present live. No questions are barred to sent prior to the event. Ask the BBC whose representative attends every year.
So not a phone in, not stage-managed, no lies.
Just that you can’t recognize truth because like ‘western intelligence’ it’s not in the script.
Let’s hope you stupid liars don’t get the west completely destroyed.
December 20, 2025
Nato has already “intervened”, SG. It is fighting Russia via its Ukraine proxy, which its countries have armed and are paying for, right down to paying the salaries of the schoolteachers, never mind just the army. British taxpayers alone have now paid over £15 million into the black hole that is Ukraine. So what more do you want, British squaddies/pilots getting killed fighting for your lost cause? Whose kids? Kiev needs to be told that this horror show has gone on long enough, we can’t afford to go on supporting this war, and it’s time to reach a realistic peace agreement.
Reply Much understated UK cost so far
December 20, 2025
Shouldn’t that be 15 billion?
December 20, 2025
When government behaves as though it does not fear the verdict of the electorate, and then denies voters the opportunity to pass that verdict, we are entitled to draw our own conclusions.
I’d be surprised if an attempt at least is not made to delay the General Election too.
December 20, 2025
I agree. The drums of war are slowly being beaten.
December 20, 2025
@ Nick
You’re not alone in that fear. A lot of people are concerned about the next general election!
Peter Wood’s description seems close to the mark with our PM et al.
December 20, 2025
The GE will be held but we need to insist of close scrutiny o& the whole voting/counting process. The boxes of votes must be visible at all times. No offloading out of sight and the same number of boxes delivered to the count.
We need to know that we are counting the correct boxes.
December 20, 2025
Are there many signs of Labour MP revolts of the appalling direction of this government? They have absolutely everything wrong.
The idea of a single judge or even a single anyone deciding on people’s liverty is appalling. The outcome will largely be dependent on the view of that on person which will likely vary hugely depending on that persons political views, their life experiences, their hopes for propment and much else. Almost completely randon. We have seen six appeal court judges twice refuse any appeal to Lucy Letby on any of her 15 totally unsound convictions.
Other dire judges who decided on Lucy Connolly’s 31 months sentence “there is no arguable basis on which it couldvbe said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive. The
application for leave to appeal against sentence therefore fails and is refused.”
It is hard to see any arguable basis for any custodial sentence what so ever!
December 20, 2025
See Jacob Rees-Mogg’s excellent videos on Starmers European Fiddle over the Erasmus Scheme and his ones with David Starkey.
Also out from the excellent Dr Clare Craig her new book Spiked: A shot in the dark (part two). For people who genuinely want to understand the disaster that was the “safe and effective”, Covid “VACCINE” luncy. Thank goodness we have excellent & honest people like Dr Clare Craig. The war on people from government, Handcock, O’Brian, Ofcom tying to shut up the people telling the truth on Covid was surely pure evil.
So when will the government stop hiding the damning stats. on the vast Covid “Vaccine” injuries and deaths caused (broken down by vaccine status). Ten years, fifteen, thirty… ? Another blood scandal, Hillsborough, post office, Thalidomide… scandal.
“It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn’t make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is—If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” Richard Feynman.
December 20, 2025
Good morning.
I am getting reports that they are even refusing to talk to the press. If true, this marks a new low.
December 20, 2025
The decision as to whether to delay local elections is being left up to each individual affected council to make. It is not being imposed by central government.
Reply Not so. Councils are being consulted but a Minister needs to sign off any cancellation.
December 20, 2025
Does it ever occur to this rotten government that those whom they and councils are meant to serve, i.e. the electorate, might wish to decide if elections should take place or not and not leave it to the whims of party-political, partisan politicians?
December 20, 2025
@Brian Tompkinson. We really need a system that guarantees citizen-led referendums, rather like the Swiss. These could impede a despised, tyrannical-bent government’s increasing control of the population.
December 20, 2025
Democracy is a catch 22. The current powers that be have the power to rig the system as much as they dare to try to retain power. Also they can tax one group hugely and use the proceeds to try to buy the votes of other groups often using the evil socialist politics of envy. Plus they can use fake catastrophes to scare the populous climate alarmism, possible wars, fake pandemics…
December 20, 2025
Perhaps if it is ‘not convenient’ for an election due to ‘ re-organisation ‘ ,a referendum upon that re-organisation should be held instead
December 20, 2025
I see Reeves is now saying she may well need increase taxes further in 2026 !
When will these fools in Government realise that you cannot borrow more, tax more, and spend more (increase welfare) and still get economic growth.
The only growth you will get is a greater national debt, and more wealthy people and businesses leaving the Country.
We cannot survive on selling each other cups of coffee, and increasing the number of charity shops.
As for cancelling elections, that surely is the road to eventual political disaster.
December 20, 2025
The ongoing reorganisation of local government into unitary Authorities and Elected Mayors may suit urban councils but the model has not adapted well to rural areas. Economies of scale have resulted in decision making being made farther away from the people and, frequently, the majority of the council members come from the urban centres and have different views and priorities from the rural constituents.
As for elected Mayors, they say it is being done to improve democratic representation. If that is the case why is the Prime Minister not separately elected as the Leader of Parliament. The responsibilities of Counties and Boroughs caused confusion – now we have the larger responsibilities of Mayors and Unitaries to cause confusion.
Why can’t we make democracy simpler?
December 20, 2025
@JayCee – so much of what you say is so true it hurts. But, it confirms we live in a tin-pot dictatorship.
December 20, 2025
It was specifically rejected in a referendum in the north. mayors were rejected by 98%.
December 20, 2025
So we can expect the National election to be undergoing reorganisation in due course so that they can be delayed.
We are truly living in a third world one party state.
December 20, 2025
Covid lockdowns rolled the pitch for this move. Without postponing elections because of Covid this would be an unacceptable move.
Those lockdowns were wrong on so many levels
December 20, 2025
Behaviour of totalitarians never changes, it just becomes more extreme. Every now and again we have the Labour Party/Socialists enter into power to remind us of that truth. Whether it is Blair introducing National Deconstruction via Devolution, to conform with the desires of the totalitarian EU. Done to remove Nation as the core Political entity of authority. Or whether it is Blair forcing in policies of race replacement to ” wash their smug white faces in diversity” resulting in what we see on our streets 20 years later. Those endless marches through our capital city demanding death to Israel. Or whether it is Gordon Brown progressing economic collapse of the most stable pensions investment funds, prompting the rush to real estate investments and the bundling of toxic debt/2008 crash. The loss of Private Sector pension security was catastrophic economically. We then watching him elevate the Public Sector pension security, all funded out of the tax payers pocket not out of investment in industry.
The Latest tranche of lunacy involving giving away National assets to foreign powers at great cost, or giving away border control of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean to Spain, another EU demand. Or paying £billion to the totalitarian EU to enable student exchange which used to be a private not government matter. Student exchanges were so unnewsworthy and normal they never made headlines, until now. The Socialists have no moral compass, the decision to simply cancel due elections because they can, is probably the highest crime against democracy but they simply could not care less.
December 20, 2025
‘The difference between a Welfare State and a Totalitarian State is time.’
Ayn Rand
December 20, 2025
My faith in our PM goes down day by day. It’s not just the dystopian actions he takes along with more freedoms lost by the week, or his continual giveaways and surrendering to the EU. The man has no interest in this country nor what we stand for, it’s all about the power to rule.
Without being alarmist I believe I’ve worked out his long term strategy to remain in power.
Delaying elections is not just a way to avoid Reform getting elected across Britain, which simply shows how devious he is, it also demonstrates that he cannot be trusted with our democracy, but there is so much more to come. If he can swing it we may never see another general election.
Our war-mongering PM is determined to get into the war against Russia, I’m certain, even if that takes 2 or 3 years. He, along with the French and German leaders, is determined to keep the Ukraine war going, by his constant whispering of support to Zelenskyy and regular support meetings, without which the war would have been over months ago.
The EU have just approved a large loan to fund the war for 2 years.
Starmer has already said that he has instructed his cabinet to prepare for war.
Just look at the advantages that having a war with Russia would give him.
In a state at war all elections would be cancelled as a government of national unity was formed, primarily composing hard left wing socialists, with a few left thinking Tories, and possibly even a few trade union barons.
He has already shown how determined he can be to achieve what he wants. I would put nothing beyond him.
Then he can finish the job he has started, to turn Britain into a broken third world rat house.
December 20, 2025
Your overview of Starmer’s game plan sounds way too real to ignore. He clearly knows Labour are finished if the people are allowed another opportunity to vote. His ability to conjure up a national emergency should not be dismissed as conspiracy theory. He promised growth as a priority in the election manifesto and has done all he possibly can to ensure growth does not happen. He promised protection to workers from additional taxation in that manifesto and has taxed workers and employers to the point hiring is reduced. He made big speeches (well big for hm) about inflation created by Tory Covid policies which he at the time claimed did not go far enough! The result is we now have higher inflation than when he took office. He has given away our strategic interests in the Indian Ocean at huge legacy cost, he has destroyed confidence in the economy thanks to his incompetent Chancellor. He is working full speed to destroy the rural communities by destroying farmers and farm economics plus granting his destroyer in chief Ed Miliband permission to carpet farmlands with pointless solar arrays.
Cancelling elections probably seems like a nothing decision to Starmer and the Labour Party advisors.
December 20, 2025
So true
December 20, 2025
A way of looking at the Government’s performance is that it ought to significantly strengthen opposition parties’ platforms at the next General Election. Opposition parties should be concentrating on deciding which is the top priority problem which needs solving and if solved will contribute to solving other significant problems – in my view, this is achieving growth again, which = wealth creation = step change improvement in productivity (think Industrial Revolutions). The UK is great at step change innovation (the precursor to step change improvement in productivity) but is not very good at commercialising it at scale – for decades neither Westminster (all parties) nor the City has demonstrated much understanding of how to solve this problem or indeed of the pressing need to solve it. This provides the Tory party with a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate that they understand a) the need to solve the problem and b) what it needs to do (or stop doing) in order to unlock the UK’s huge potential to deliver step change productivity not only to the UK but also globally.
December 20, 2025
How else do the carry on the Blair legacy of ripping up Society that Cameron etc filed to stop/reverse in aid of the WEF doctrine of they ‘Great Reset’
December 20, 2025
My hobby horse, ‘5 year terms’ in office without ever seeking approval or confirmation of direction, is obscene and an obstruction to a democracy. All those in favour should be removed from the political scene banned from being involved. The concept is an affront, an insult that wouldn’t be permitted in the free democracies of the World it the rule of a tin-pot dictatorship.
Yet another thing the UK Parliament should hang is head in shame on, we need rid of the lot of them, have proper democracy installed.
December 20, 2025
It’s been repealed. Get off your hobbyhorse.
December 20, 2025
@LA. So when do we get to vote? If they held at all it will still be 5 years, the minimum should be 2 year spells before seeking approval
December 20, 2025
Lets be clear the government and Labour MPs are running scared. While wanting to reset and destroy the safe, economic stabilty we used to take for granted in the UK, they now are informed every day that the people want them out. The Labour MPs and indeed quite a few LibnoDems are alarmed that they must see redundancy looming. A one-shot CV entry…..’failed MP booted out at the first opportunity’ doesn’t read well.
December 20, 2025
Revolts by Labour MPs could be because Starmer’s Gang is not Far Left enough. That should alarming considering the Gang is riddled with Fabians
December 20, 2025
It’s worth watching Jacob Rees-Mogg’s podcast regarding the comparison between Two-Tier and Charles I, who also cancelled “inconvenient” elections. (Rees-Mogg is one of a few Conservatives I still have any time for.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwHS2-Rriv8&t=475s
At one point he says “Let me say this to any Conservative Councillor who is thinking of voting in favour of delaying elections, DON’T. You are not a Conservative if you do, you are doing it purely to retain your Office for a year. Any principled Conservative would not vote to delay elections in these circumstances.”
Compare and contrast with Badenough, whose spokesman said: “Kemi is the Conservative Party leader, but she respects local Conservative Council leaders. She has been clear that she wants the local elections to go ahead, but it is ultimately a decision for local Council leaders.”
CON-held East and West Sussex Councils both want to delay. They should take note of Conservative Rees-Mogg, not CONservative Badenough.
Reply The Conservative leader and the Shadow Minister made clear their opposition to cancelling elections. See Hansard.
December 20, 2025
Making clear their opposition to cancelling elections whilst giving CONservative Councils free rein to do just that is the kind of Two-Tier politics we expect from Labour.
Why hasn’t she told CONservative Councillors that they will be ejected from the Party?
Reply The Leader of the Opposition opposes this. An election can only be cancelled if a Labour Minister approves the idea.
December 20, 2025
Asking Councillors that are likely to loose their seats, ‘would you like to stay on an keep your seat for a bit longer?’
one: it wont be central government choosing
two: it lays out the groundwork for postponing the 2029 election
I don’t know what planet this so-called UK Parliament and its appointed Government come from, but in every shape of a Democracy that is not Democracy.
This lunacy has to stop
December 20, 2025
Never change the historic county or region traditional voting areas …..just change the number of politcians therein …..and stop merging and making super large authorities that no one voted for !
December 20, 2025
@glen cullen – to simple & logical, it can’t be used to contrived results in a dictatorship. Ban election, ban trail by jury, ban, ban, control, control
December 20, 2025
There are far more Labour MPs and activists preventing government action needed to reduce the deficit and to implement the Supreme Court judgement over Womens’ spaces, than over Lammy’s abandoning Juries.
So much so, that even if 2TK and Theeves survive until the Autumn, they will face a full blown financial crisis when they inevitably call for another £20-£40bn of tax rises in the 2026 budget. If they are replaced after what’s left of the May elections, whoever replaces them will spend even more, and make things far worse.
Nigel Farage’s prediction of a 2027 election could well be proved right – although they will probably attempt to prevent a General Election as well, if they get away with stopping the local elections in May.
December 20, 2025
The Electoral Commission has come out quite strongly against these cancellations but it seems “Mr Rules” Starmer will simply ignore them. So let’s see what powers (and courage) the Electoral Commission has.
December 20, 2025
Blair fiddled the Welsh Referendum, He “Foisted” it onto the NI, Welsh Ref, and his Religion.
He used the Welsh Electoral Commission, with the Welsh Labour Cliche (Neil Kinnock was against, I believe, we talked about it, he believe there are those that would use it to break up GB, and into the EU).
Read the results: Src; Wikipedia
← 1979 18 September 1997 2011 →
Do you agree that there should be a Welsh Assembly as proposed by the Government?
Outcome The Government of Wales Act 1998 passes and the National Assembly for Wales is formed.
Results
Choice Votes %
Yes 559,419 50.30%
No 552,698 49.70%
Valid votes 1,112,117 99.64%
Invalid or blank votes 3,999 0.36%
Total votes 1,116,116 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 2,222,533 50.22%
In my reading of the Referendum Act 1976; This is Illegal, in a number of ways.
The minimum number of Turnout, for a legal Constitutional Referendum was stated as 70%!
They changed the Valid votes, a number of times, through out the day. It Started on 42,1% up to 50.3%?
Registered turnout was 2,222,533 (See 50.3% Voted for)?
I destroyed my Vote, because they were actually talking about an Assembly Vs Government of Wales, they want separation!
So, it looks as if, my Vote was included in the Yes Vote! A Betrayal !
Registered voters/turnout 2,222,533
Minus Yes Vote 1,112,117
Missing 1,110,416 (Voted against or Destroyed Vote)?
Or Registered voters/turnout 50.22% Vs Yes Vote 50.30%
Someone can’t count with the Electoral Commission, or was it changed ?
If we do not accept we have to at least Establish Constitutional Law, with written Individual Rights, this is always going to happen, and has happened, when different Party’s / Powers get in!
December 20, 2025
You might have also mentioned Starmer’s decree that MI5 will investigate foreign funding of political parties and they must report on this before the May elections. This inquiry will cover claimed Russian links to Reform but presumably not proven links between China and Labour. This inquiry will take 3 months, the grooming gangs inquiry around 3 years they say (ie. reporting after the next General Election, unless he postpones it).
December 20, 2025
@Chris S – with a 150+ seat working majority handed to them as a result of the Conservative Party going AWOL. They can keep destroying until the last minute, throw out a tax break and all will be forgiven
December 20, 2025
@Roy Grainger – a member of the European Parliament takes money from the Russians, is stretching things for MI5 and internal UK security service. The Guardian says it was Reform taking the money, Reform was never a European Party with MEP’s. Yes the man joined the Welsh end of Reform but was never elected, just removed.
Its the dig up dirt of UK politics. The UK Parliament is unable to defend itself or promote, it’s actions, it’s policies. It seeks to ‘rule’ through fear and tenuous links against those that challenge
If that tedious link becomes the reason to cancelled elections, what next?
December 20, 2025
Everything we do is paid for by you! Labour is a disgrace in every area. It seems the Cabinet decides what is best for the UK and then does the exact opposite. Cancelling elections is just the latest example of the anti-democratic policies of this shambles of a government.
Any local councillors who vote to delay are a disgrace to their office.
December 20, 2025
John,
One does wonder how much collusion there is between Stramer, his cliche within the Labour Party, and established members of the HoL, and the EU Control/Cliche, European Leftist Party’s, and even Euro Centrist Party’s, and even Judges?
They are using so called Democratic structures that separates the People away from Power/Capital/Money/Law held in the middle, and moving control to themselves, but to achieve what aims?
Power/Capital/Money/Law all need’s to be accessible directly, even may be supported by MP’s in Parliament! A Liberal Democracy should be based on a balance between Individual Agency (And, enshrined Rights), and the State’s Power!
This Government is looking for Cultural change, and one that aligns with Leftist European structures?
They would need the Rights of an ‘All out War’ to make that change! Blair and Co, would know this!
Conscription is another example of the change they would need! There are many models of Conscription; Fighting Force, Passive, or Discipline and skills based training, Weapons, Driving, etc,…
As with the Finnish Conscripted model, they could only Fight if permission is given by their Parliament!
Which ever is used, it needs to be a Cultural Based system, and not the structured elitist nonsense GB had before!
Rollout the silly old folk that served before; It did NOT work very well, and certainly not as a fighting force! Not without the might, control, and support of the USA! Even Canada, Australia, Indian Army, Common Wealth, had Hugh influence, and during WW1, the Allies end up being controlled by Gen From, and two of the most influential Commands from Canada, and Australia! When Field Marshal H Kitchener was alive he would of signed a pact with Germany!
In my opinion; We would benefit from a Disciplined, Weapons, skills based structure, providing training, hope, belonging, Identity (To a Country we can believe in, and Not a silly old Man/Family, aka Monarch) for those aged between 16..20? We won’t get it because there are too many silly old men that think they should be control, and decide when, how, where, and (Non fighting force Conscription, which could be turned ready for Home Defense only) by whom, we will fight!
Also;
There is the need to pay for all this, the Cultural, the Democratic Structure, the Overheads, adventures, and even ill-thought out infrastructure projects (HS2), so surely it’s the Economy first, a light Democratic Structure (It will be Centralised), Actual/Real Cheap home grown Energy, access to training, Skills, Education, Capital, the list is long!
But, this does not mean there isn’t real problems with Local Councils, Planning, Individual Authority to build their own Homes/Houses (including Log cabins, etc,… Even Tents, as a short term means for the to Build)!
All part of the needed flexibly Cultural, an Enterprise Culture!
We seem to be going around in Circles, and we have a lot of People that have been left be-hide, especially within the Regions. A lot have been deliberately left on UC/PIP (as part of our commitment to the Customs Union, by IDS), they DO Not have the means or Opportunity, to do any thing else! And then, they Close Down the Blast Furnaces, and the shout about cutting Benefits? The result is Cultural Destruction! The Right need to Stop and Think about a Plan; Hope, Opportunity, Reform, for these Areas! And, this is where the necessary pressure on Kemi Badenoch is, I hope! Not just accept the need for cuts, YES WE KNOW, because there always is that need! A Plan; about what is it?
So, may be, for GB, a Balanced Plan around Economic Nationalism is a suggested model for Her?
Please John; I know how important Economic Liberalism is, but there are times, like now, where it cannot serve the Country. We (ALL) will become a targets for Hegemony Agents (we know the Countries)!
Keep your ideas coming, as having that certain someone, we trust, overlooking this sort of stuff, is so so important!!
Some Ideas, from POW Ward 4 (Cube 1), to open things up!
BR
RDM.
December 20, 2025
@RDM – the systems, the country has been crippled by control ‘in my personal image’ from the metro left center. The concept of devolution was a well meant idea, but the center wanted to stay in control and dictate. They feared anyone that could make a success of things. They didn’t understand that should we have had those that thrived it released more resources for others that couldn’t get it done. The Socialist mantra of enforced dumbing down
December 21, 2025
No, sorry, it’s not just the Central Government!
There are very real problems with a very Narrowed Minded Nationalism, within the Regional Party’s, especially, the Lefties!
Devolution can never, and was never, going work in a British System; a System (in my opinion) that should be based on a Balance between the Individual, and the State (Center), and not small c conservatism of Local Councils, and other Power blocks/Individuals, within the area! The good, well paid jobs, of de-industrialisation, in the 80..2003, were replaced by the State (Benefits: now UC/PIP), Customs Union, and affiliations to the Labour/PC!
It will always end up being used! in most cases, used to break up GB, by those that want to re-enter the EU!
BR
RDM.
December 21, 2025
I suspect Starmer will let it be known in the cabinet that he will call a general election if his position is threatened by a leadership bid from Miliband or anyone else. After all, what has he got too lose ?
December 22, 2025
Hi sir john
Why are all the other party’s not doing something about it
it’s their job to see justice is served for the
For the voters
what is the house of Lords doing are they there to protect democracy
Merry Christmas
Sir john to you and your family